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Searchlight pacts with Wong Kar-Wai's Block 2
Fox Searchlight Pictures has signed a three-picture deal withaward-winning Hong Kong director-writer-producer Wong Kar Wai and his productionoutfit Block 2 Films.Under the terms of the deal, Block 2 and Searchlight willco-finance and co-distribute a minimum of three English-language films thatWong and Block 2 will produce. Wong will select the directors ...
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Gentlemen begins European tour, Pirates eyes $300m
Pirates Of The Caribbean is expected to pass $300m in international ticket sales this upcoming weekend, which also sees the first major European assault by The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen (LXG).Buena Vista International's (BVI) Pirates has no major openings but strong holdovers should be enough to hoist its $295m running ...
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Morgan Creek switches allegiance to Universal
Morgan Creek Productions,James G Robinson's production and financing company which has been basedat Warner Bros for the last 13 years, has entered into an exclusive, three-yeardomestic distribution agreement with Universal Pictures.Under the terms of the deal,Morgan Creek will produce and finance all its films for domestic distributionin all media by ...
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Stringer gets Britannia Award honour from BAFTA/LA
Howard Stringer, chairmanand CEO of Sony Corporation Of America and vice chairman, Sony Corporation,will receive BAFTA/LA's Britannia Award for contributions to worldwideentertainment at the 12th annual Britannia Awards on Nov 8 in LosAngeles. 'We are pleased to honor Sir Howard Stringer, who hasmade immeasurable contributions to the manner and practice ...
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Krueger takes over as Berlinale marketing chief
PR specialist Heike Krueger has been appointed successor to Dr. Silke Zimmermann as head of marketing & communications at the Berlinale.Krueger, who took up her post on October 1, had run her own agency PR & Film for the past twelve years handling arthouse film and TV projects for German ...
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Jackson to present Rings trilogy at Lincoln Center in Jan
Peter Jackson will attend anall-weekend screening of the completed The Lord Of The Rings trilogy on Jan 10-11 2004 at the Lincoln Center inNew York City.Jackson will present thespecial extended editions of the first two films in the trilogy followed by TheReturn Of The King, the final filmin the trilogy ...
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Chinese film wins Vancouver festival prize
Chinese filmmaker Diao Yinan has won the Vancouver International Film Festival's Dragons & Tigers Award for Young Cinema for his film Uniform, a story of contemporary China's lost generation of young people who search for an identity amidst a society beset by industrial decay and urban despair. According to a ...
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Star TV strikes Indian production deal
Rupert Murdoch's STAR TV India has struck a deal with Indian production company UTV to make three big budget movies. The $25m deal will give STAR the exclusive television and broadcast rights in perpetuity of the three movie products. The rights to theatrical and the home video will remain with ...
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Palm takes domestic rights to Fortissimo's Last Life
Chris Blackwell's PalmPictures has acquired all North American and Caribbean rights to Pen-ekRatanaruang's Venice and Toronto hit Last Life In The Universe from Thailand.The film, which isThailand's official entry to the foreign language film Academy Award, will bereleased in summer 2004 by Palm. It stars Japanese superstar Asano Tadanobu,who won ...
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Dutch industry wins tax extension
The Dutch CV tax incentive scheme has been extended for one year following intensive lobbying from the local film industry.Following a special hearing into the issue, a majority in the Dutch parliament is willing to support the tax break for at least a year. Initiated by D66, one of the ...
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Loews embarks on money raising plan
Exhibitor Loews Cineplex is planning to raise capital through an income trust, the latest entertainment company seeking to leverage the revenue stream of its business operations without diluting ownership of the company proper. According to a report in the Toronto Globe and Mail, the privately-held exhibitor's primary stakeholder, Toronto-based Onex ...
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Media Plus promotes festival exposure for Euro films
Four European institutions have received a total of Euros 800,000 from the European Union's MEDIA Plus Programme as part of its new initiative to promote European films and professionals at film festivals around the world.The Brussels-based European Film Festivals Coordination (EFFC) was awarded Euros 250,000 to establish a support service ...
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International Festival of India unveils line-up
The 34th edition of the International Film Festival of India (Oct 9-20) - the last to be held in New Delhi before the venue shifts to Goa next year - will open with Dr. Chandraprakash Dwivedi's magnum opus Pinjar.Based on Amrita Pritam's novel of the same name and set during ...
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German fund moves into international TV financing
Munich-based fund specialist LHI Leasing is set to move into financing international TV series with the placement of LHI Filmproduktionsfonds KALEDO later this month.With a projected volume of over Euros 100m, the leasing-type TV production fund intends to back future episodes of the US series Law & Order, Law & ...
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Relaunched Kinowelt unveils first foray into production
For the first time since its relaunch at the beginning of this year, Kinowelt has announced that it will be making its first foray into production by co-producing an adaptation of Wladimir Kaminer's bestselling cult novel Russendisko next year (ScreenDaily.com, April 2003).The film, which will be produced by Christoph Meyer-Wiel ...
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Top Spanish post-production houses unveil merger
Two Barcelona-based heavyweights, En Efecto and MEDIApro, have announced the merger of their post-production interests.The formerly Das Werk-owned En Efecto, now controlled by one-time Admira president and Antena 3 CEO Juan Jose Nieto, houses audio and digital post-production companies Videoefecto, Madpix, Audioclip and Lisbon-based Bikini Pos Producao de Filmes.Production, facilities ...
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Patel upped at Paramount International TV
Mina Patel has been promotedto senior vice president of sales strategy and operations for ParamountInternational Television, where she will continue to report to Joe Lucas,executive vice president of sales and marketing.Patel, who was formerly vicepresident, sales planning and administration, will now oversee thedivision's sales planning and administration, becoming more strategicallyinvolved ...
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Turn Left, Turn Right opens top in Taiwan for Warner
Warner Bros Pictures iscelebrating the success of its first ever Chinese-language film Turn Left,Turn Right which opened at the topof the Taiwanese box office over the weekend bringing its total to date of$3.2m.The studio issued a pressrelease to trumpet its $0.637m opening on 79 screens in Taiwan. In Taipei, thefilm ...
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Miramax tempted by Infernal Affairs
Miramax Films is poised to acquire rights for North and South America, Italy and Spain to Hong Kong blockbuster Infernal Affairs, the first film in what is shaping up to be a hugely successful franchise. The Media Asia production has now been sold to most major territories including the UK, ...
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Sony studio chief Calley steps down
After months of speculation, Sony Pictures confirmed on Thursday (Oct 2) that chairman and chief executive John Calley is stepping down after seven years in the job.Sony said that Calley, 73, had signed a first look production deal with the studio, and that he would remain on the company's board ...